Aya Matsuura

Aya Matsuura (松浦 亜弥 born June 25, 1986) also known to her fans as Ayaya, is a Japanese pop singer and actress from Himeji, Hyogo, Japan. Her husband is Keita Tachibana and as a result, her legal name is Aya Tachibana (橘亜弥).

Career

2000–2009: Hello! Project

Aya auditioned in 2000 for the fourth Morning Musume & Heike Michiyo Protegee Audition and was selected along with Sheki-Dol to become a part of what was later known as Hello! Project. It is a common misconception that Aya originally auditioned to be a part of Morning Musume, which she did not. After being chosen from that audition, Matsuura began her solo career. In time, she would become one of Hello! Project's biggest acts.

Aside from a successful solo career, Matsuura (nicknamed Ayaya), also did numerous collaborations with other members of Hello! Project, including special, usually short lived groups Gomattou with Maki Goto and Miki Fujimoto; Nochiura Natsumi with Maki Goto and Natsumi Abe; and DEF.DIVA with Maki Goto, Natsumi Abe, and Rika Ishikawa. She also did the "Folk Song" series which feature Yuko Nakazawa and other Hello! Project artists, as well as Hello! Project's shuffle groups (3nin Matsuri in 2001, Odoru 11 in 2002, Salt5 in 2003, and the larger H.P. All Stars in 2004).

Numeral (linguistics)

In linguistics, a numeral is a member of a word class (or sometimes even a part of speech) designating numbers, such as the English word 'two' and the compound 'seventy-seven'.

Identifying numerals

Numerals may be attributive, as in two dogs, or pronominal, as in I saw two (of them).

Many words of different parts of speech indicate number or quantity. Quantifiers do not enumerate, or designate a specific number, but give another, often less specific, indication of amount. Examples are words such as every, most, least, some, etc. There are also number words which enumerate but are not a distinct part of speech, such as 'dozen', which is a noun, 'first', which is an adjective, or 'twice', which is an adverb. Numerals enumerate, but in addition have distinct grammatical behavior: when a numeral modifies a noun, it may replace the article: the/some dogs played in the parktwelve dogs played in the park. (Note that *dozen dogs played in the park is not grammatical, so 'dozen' is not a numeral.)

Zero (name)

Zero or Zéro is surname, given name or pseudonym of the following people:

  • Gonzalo Barrios (esports player) (born 1995), Professional Super Smash Bros. for Wii U player known by his alias ZeRo
  • João Zero (cartoonist) (born 1950), Brazilian illustrator
  • Karl Zéro, stage name of the french filmmaker Marc Tellenne (born 1961)
  • Lady Zero, stage name of the Japanese professional wrestler Chigusa Nagayo (born 1964), see Zero (wrestler)
  • Mr. Zero, an alias of Urbain Ledoux (1874-1941), activist for the unemployed
  • Renato Zero, stage name of the Italian singer/songwriter Renato Fiacchini (born 1950)
  • Zero, stage name of the Japanese bass player of the former band D'espairsRay
  • Zero Kazama (born 1982), Japanese-American game show host
  • Zero Mostel, stage name of the American actor Samuel Joel Mostel (1915–1977)
  • Zero is name of the following notable fictional characters:

  • Zero Moustafa, a character in The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Zero (Drakengard), a character in Drakengard 3
  • Zero (Kirby), a character in Kirby media
  • Zero (Yeah Yeah Yeahs song)

    "Zero" is a song by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released as the lead single from their third studio album, It's Blitz! (2009). The song received critical acclaim from music critics for its production, and was named the best track of 2009 by both NME and Spin magazines.

    The single had minor commercial success, peaking at numbers four and eighteen on the Billboard Alternative Songs and Hot Dance Singles Sales charts, as well as number forty-nine on the UK Singles Chart. A music video for the single, which shows lead singer Karen O walking the streets of San Francisco at night, was released in March 2009.

    Critical reception

    "Zero" received acclaim from music critics. Paula Carino of AllMusic described the song as "an exhilarating and wide-open expanse of pure electro-pop". Mary Bellamy of Drowned in Sound viewed the track as "the call to arms of a band who desperately want to teleport the refugees of fashion-fizzled pop, the hippest of hipsters and the weirdest outsiders to the dancefloor of their sweaty spaceship", stating it is "perhaps one of the band's finest moments ever committed to tape."

    Podcasts:

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    Say It Ain't So

    by: Weezer

    Oh, yeah
    Alright
    Somebody's Heine' is crowdin' my icebox
    Somebody's cold one is givin' me chills
    Guess I'll just close my eyes
    Oh yeah, all right, feels good inside
    Flip on the tele'
    Wrestle with Jimmy
    Something is bubbling behind my back
    The bottle is ready to blow
    Say it ain't so
    Your drug is a heart-breaker
    Say it ain't so
    My love is a life-taker
    I can't confront you, I never could do
    That which might hurt you so try and be cool
    When I say, "This way is a water slide away from me
    That takes you further every day, hey, so be cool"
    Say it ain't so
    Your drug is a heart-breaker
    Say it ain't so
    My love is a life-taker
    Dear Daddy, I write you, in spite of years of silence
    You've cleaned up, found Jesus, things are good or so I hear
    This bottle of Steven's awakens ancient feelings
    Like father, step-father, the son is drowning in the flood
    Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah
    Say it ain't so
    Your drug is a heart-breaker
    Say it ain't so




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